XC: Ninety Years

c. 1599

Crispijn van de Passe I

Artist, Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637

Crispijn van de Passe I

Publisher, Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637

Crispijn van de Passe I

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 11.9 cm (4 11/16 in.) (circular, trimmed to platemark)
    mount: 18 cm (7 1/16 in.) (octagonal)

  • Accession Number

    2022.181.90

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 486, State Only

  • Series Title

    The Ages of Man

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert H. and Clarice R. Smith, Arlington, VA; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Herzberger., 1964: XV, no. 486.

Inscriptions

around image, in plate: XC. Nunc, ulula ut cunctis invisius... Hae sunt primitiae mortis ubique trucis

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